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(March 2013)

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dosxuk
lxflyer posted:
She may only be presenting for 5-10 minutes per hour, but that doesn't mean that she's sitting around twiddling her thumbs for the rest of the time - she will be working with her producer to prepare each live bulletin.


Yes, but there's plenty of time for breaks in that, she wasn't on air or standing by throughout. Unlike, say, the people working on the sat trucks across the country, who might not be anywhere near somewhere to have a break, and only having a kettle and some stale biscuits for sustenance throughout the day.

lxflyer posted:
Let's be honest 3am to 5pm is a long day by anyone's standards.


It's really not in the TV / Entertainment world. I was working with someone who ended up doing a 25 hour stint on Friday, with about half an hour on an inflatable sofa as his only appreciable break.
MI
m_in_m
Bic Basher posted:
DAN09690 posted:
dosxuk posted:
DAN09690 posted:
5AM - 8AM, Then 8.45AM - 17:00PM - is more like 12 hours , not 7.


Has she been presenting all day?

Anyway, 12 hours is still not a long day.

Yes , The News Channel only has one business presenter a day. Not in most jobs but its far longer than the majority of newsreaders work.


Normally, on Thursday, Ben started the day. but Victoria Fritz covered PM.

Sometimes when Victoria takes over during the day it's because Ben is heading off up to Salford for BBC Breakfast the next day. They do seem as though they could perhaps do with a business correspondent based in Salford who is available to cover Breakfast/Five Live as required - though perhaps that's Dominic Laurie's role?
HB
HarryB
Good to see Sophie Raworth at the Ten desk once again. Even better her former breakfast co anchor Jeremy Bowen joins her to talk Al Jazeera sentencing
LX
lxflyer
dosxuk posted:
lxflyer posted:
She may only be presenting for 5-10 minutes per hour, but that doesn't mean that she's sitting around twiddling her thumbs for the rest of the time - she will be working with her producer to prepare each live bulletin.


Yes, but there's plenty of time for breaks in that, she wasn't on air or standing by throughout. Unlike, say, the people working on the sat trucks across the country, who might not be anywhere near somewhere to have a break, and only having a kettle and some stale biscuits for sustenance throughout the day.

lxflyer posted:
Let's be honest 3am to 5pm is a long day by anyone's standards.


It's really not in the TV / Entertainment world. I was working with someone who ended up doing a 25 hour stint on Friday, with about half an hour on an inflatable sofa as his only appreciable break.


Whatever about other parts of TV/Entertainment, I would venture to suggest that for a working journalist, 14 hours IS a long day.
NE
News96
Did Simon McCoy do the early shift with Sophie Long in the studio this morning or was Sophie on her own (with Annita on location at what i'm guessing was the Old Bailey since Jane Hill is there now)-The only reason i ask was because of a tweet i saw this morning from Mediaboy about lighting up the studio and awaiting Simon's Arrival-Here is the the tweet i'm talking about.

https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/481316316062945280
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rob Founding member
Sophie was in the studio with Simon this morning.
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Jaxford
Reeta doing the Six this evening.
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News96
Rob-Thanks
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DAN09690
News96 posted:
Did Simon McCoy do the early shift with Sophie Long in the studio this morning or was Sophie on her own (with Annita on location at what i'm guessing was the Old Bailey since Jane Hill is there now)-The only reason i ask was because of a tweet i saw this morning from Mediaboy about lighting up the studio and awaiting Simon's Arrival-Here is the the tweet i'm talking about.

https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/481316316062945280

Annita was in N.Ireland covering the Queen's Visit. Simon was with Sophie Long this morning but went outside to cover the Al Jazeera Protest.
NE
News96
DAN09690 posted:
News96 posted:
Did Simon McCoy do the early shift with Sophie Long in the studio this morning or was Sophie on her own (with Annita on location at what i'm guessing was the Old Bailey since Jane Hill is there now)-The only reason i ask was because of a tweet i saw this morning from Mediaboy about lighting up the studio and awaiting Simon's Arrival-Here is the the tweet i'm talking about.

https://twitter.com/chrisckmedia/status/481316316062945280

Annita was in N.Ireland covering the Queen's Visit. Simon was with Sophie Long this morning but went outside to cover the Al Jazeera Protest.


So a lot of location stuff going on today then with Jane Hill at The Old Bailey for The Hacking Trial Verdicts (although 2 more verdicts are still to come in so Jane will probably still be there tomorrow as well.)
NE
Newsroom
Really not a fan of Reeta Chakrabarti at all. I think her promotion or possible 'relief' stint on Network news will be short lived. As mentioned by several other forum members, there are way more talented presenters on the News Channel than Reeta. I'd really like to see the likes of Tim, Matthew, Sophie, Joanna and Maxine cover the national bulletins.
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News96
Julian Worricker pulling a double as he did 2-5 with Jane Hill earlier and then returned after the Five to do 6-9 ("The Six" is at 7:10 because of the World Cup.)

ETA:Scrap the above-Gavin Esler returned at 7
Last edited by News96 on 26 June 2014 7:10pm

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